JAM said:
If you are truly interested in how a tournament runs on the Viking Tour, or any regional tour for that matter, call the tournament directors and make your inquiries and/or voice your concern(s).
If there's anyone full of shit on this thread, it is YOU!
Anybody who thinks Teacherman is interested in a Viking Tour event must have their eyes painted on! It is quite evident he's on a mission to destroy Mike Janis' good name, to include the Viking Tour.
Can't ruin excellence, Pal, but you are doing a really good job on making a name for yourself on AzBilliards Discussion Forum. Happy posting, and thanks for looking! Was that nicey-nicey enough for you?
JAM
I guess your calm "voice of reason" is admirable.
But your modis operendi is to see everything through the "these guys are reallly good guys" filter. Not that there aren't some good guys. I suspect Mr. Janis is a good guy. But your filter keeps you from either seeing or addressing the point. And the result of it is, nothing will change. There should be no reason for a room with 15 tables or more to not want a tournament. But, there are hundreds of pool rooms who don't.
A room owner not wanting a tournament should be a red flag to pool lovers who don't have permanent filters.
Attack my personality all you want. I'm strong enough to handle it. There are usually 1 or 2 posters on my side, with a few neutral and several against. I won't whine about it. I'm perfectly comfortable being in the minority when it is the correct point of view. But, I will defend my point of view. Aggressively.
Answers to these following questions will go a long way to rebuilding the sport................
Why is the room owner the only one carrying any risk?
Why is it ok for the room owner to work for nothing, or as the pool culture likes to say, "give back to the game", but not the player or the td?
Can you imagine a tournament without prize money? Why, who would show up? Yet, you are asking the room owner to do just that. At least it is a very real possibility not at all off set by the times he does make a little.
But you say the product, the product? Yes, there is product that can be sold. Why the room owner? Why doesn't the td sell the product? Or better yet, why doesn't the player sell the product to generate the money for the tournament. They are the two who benefit.
Have you ever asked a local star player to help you with an event? He won't work without some compensation. Yet, the room owner should hold a tournament that history says he won't profit from.
If there is guaranteed money, why should the td make it and not the room owner?
Why would a room owner not want a tournament?
Why would a room owner try to make a business out of customers that don't spend money? Especially when there are "other" customers that do.
What gives a non spending customer the right to have a say in anything?
Why does this non spending customer think he should be treated special?